Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Footage has been shot! In a sense...

The syllabus calls for our first dailies, or "rushes" as their called over the pond, (or "raw footage" in layman's terms...) to be shown on Thursday. We're still finalizing the script, and casting is kind of up in the air. Little kids are hard to find when you need them for a scene! With all that in mind, we knew we weren't going to be able to shoot much. And getting the script done was a bigger priority anyway.

Even so, we needed something to show, so today we took an hour or so and shot... something. We decided to do the opening scene with Caitlin (the protagonist) sitting pensively in front tof the entrance to the auditorium. We've been calling it the "Waiting to Enter the Inquisition" scene. In any case, we got some decent-looking footage of Dani (our Caitlin) sitting on a bench in Maxwell outside the auditorium.

The script is also coming together, if in pieces. After we planned out the final direction, we each took a piece to script. The dialog is downright awful, but the direction and plot is there, so that's encouraging.

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